Surf's Up (2007)

The mockumentary has caught on as the hot new thing. (Possibly because of The Office, w00t w00t.) However, that only works when you make it important that it's a mockumentary. You can't just take a bland movie and say, "We'll make it a mockumentary!" and have the movie be better. That decision here seems to be completely unfounded. There's no reason this couldn't be just a normal movie. In fact, I think it would've benefited from that. The mockumentary does best with a kind of dry, subtle humor for it to be truly awesome. Applying it to a wacky cartoon just makes the whole thing kind of weird. 2.5 stars.